readers

fascism/right-wing authoritarianism

Andrade, Roberta Manuela Barros de Silva, Erotilde Honório (2010) A vida em cor de rosa: o romance sentimental e a ditadura militar no Brasil Famecos 17.2:41-48

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Andrade, Roberta Manuela Barros de Silva, Erotilde Honório (2013) A pedagogia social dos romances de amor dos “tempos da vovó” Tensões Mundias 9.21:251-274

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Andrade, Roberta Manuela Barros de Silva, Erotilde Honório (2013) O Consumo de Romances e o Universo Feminino: As Práticas de Leitura dos Livros do Coração Interin 15.1:50-63

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Andrade, Roberta Manuela Barros de Silva, Erotilde Honório (2014) Os Romances Sentimentais e suas Comunidades de Leitura O público e o privado 24:119-134

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Andrade, Roberta Manuela Barros de Feitosa, Ricardo Augusto de Sabóia (2018) A cultura emotiva das comunidades virtuais de leitura de livros de amor RBSE Revista Brasileira de Sociologia da Emoção 17.51:91-104

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Andrade, Roberta Manuela Barros de Feitosa, Ricardo Augusto de Sabóia Silva, Erotilde Honório (2019) Emoção e moralidade em tempos de ruptura: o estupro nas relações conjugais nos romances sentimentais e suas comunidades de leitura O público e o privado 34:137-161

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Andrade, Roberta Manuela Barros de Viana, Thiago Mena Barreto Feitosa, Ricardo Augusto de Sabóia (2020) Prazer, Emoção e Cotidiano na Leitura de Romances Sentimentais Intercom–Sociedade Brasileira de Estudos Interdisciplinares da Comunicação43º Congresso Brasileiro de Ciências da Comunicação –VIRTUAL–1ºa 10/12/2020 :

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Ang, Ien (1996) Living Room Wars: Rethinking Media Audiences for a Postmodern World London and New York: Routledge

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Anzaldúa, Saraliza (2015) Teratophilia: An Inquiry into Monster Erotica and the Feminine Psyche , National Taiwan University

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Araujo, Gail (2009) Living to read romance: The transformative potential of interpretive practice in romance reading MA thesis, California State University, Fullerton

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Armstrong, Jane Byrski, Liz Merrick, Helen (2014) Love works: Reading and writing romance in the twenty-first century Australasian Journal of Popular Culture 3.3:257-261

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Arnold-Forster, Agnes (2021) Racing Pulses: Gender, Professionalism and Health Care in Medical Romance Fiction History Workshop Journal 91.1:157–181

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medical romance

Hilda Pressley, pseudonym of Hilda Nickson

Elizabeth Gilzean

Alex Stuart

Atkinson, Jacqueline M. (1994) The Psychiatrist, the Hero and the Romance Genre Psychiatric Bulletin 18.2:97–98

Topic

Bagchi, Jayeeta (2000) Looking for Reality in Romance Social Scientist 28.3/4:30-39

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Baldys, Emily M. (2012) Disabled Sexuality, Incorporated: The Compulsions of Popular Romance Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies 6.2:125-141

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Stern, Stephanie C. Robbins, Brianne Black, Jessica E. Barnes, Jennifer L. (2019) What You Read and What You Believe: Genre Exposure and Beliefs About Relationships Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts 13.4:450–461

Topic

Barra, Andrea Cipriano (2014) Beyond the Bodice Ripper: Innovation and Change in the Romance Novel Industry PhD, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

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Barrett, Caroline (1984) Qui a peur des petits romans à l’eau de rose? Nuit blanche 15:56

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Barrett, Rebecca Kaye (2003) Higher Love: What Women Gain from Christian Romance Novels Journal of Religion and Popular Culture 4:

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Barrett-Fox, Rebecca (2007) " Hope, Faith and Toughness: An Analysis of the Christian Hero " Empowerment versus Oppression: Twenty-First Century Views of Popular Romance Novels 93-102

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family

Barrett-Fox, Rebecca (2016) " Christian Romance Novels: Inspiring Convention and Challenge " Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom? 347-368

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Bartlett, Lexey A. (2016) Review of Love Between the Covers by Laurie Kahn (Blueberry Hill Productions, 2015) Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy 3.2:

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Kapell, Matthew Becker, Suzanne (2005) Patriarchy, the Christian Romance Novel, and the 'Ecosystem of Sex' Popular Culture Review 16.1:147-155

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Béja, Alice (2019) La new romance et ses nuances. Marché littéraire, sexualité imaginaire et condition féminine Revue du Crieur 12.1:106-121

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Bennett, Tony Emmison, Michael Frow, John (1999) Accounting for Tastes: Australian Everyday Cultures Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

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Béres, Laura (2001) Romance, suffering and hope, reflective practice with abused women PhD, University of Toronto

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fairytales/folktales

Michele Hauf

V. C. Andrews

Béres, Laura (2002) Negotiating Images: Popular Culture, Imagination, and Hope in Clinical Social Work Practice Affilia 17.4:429–447

Topic

Michele Hauf

Clark, Beverly Lyon Bernier, Karen Gennari Henneberry-Nassau, Michelle Jenks, Lauren Beth Moorman, Angie J. Rhoades, Marah Bianca (1996) Reading Romance, Reading Ourselves The Centennial Review 40.2:359-384

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Burnett, Ann Beto, Rhea Reinhardt (2000) Reading Romance Novels: An Application of Parasocial Relationship Theory North Dakota Journal of Speech & Theatre 13:28-39

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Bettinotti, Julia Bleton, Paul (1992) " Le mauvais goût, ça s'apprend " Actes du colloque "Les mauvais genres" organisé au Centre culturel canadien de Paris les 23, 24 et 25 novembre 1989 99-108

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Bettinotti, Julia (1998) " Lecture sérielle et roman sentimental " L'acte de lecture 161-176

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Bettinotti, Julia des Rivières, Marie-José (2000) " Un élargissement du canon littéraire : le cas du roman d'amour " Que vaut la littérature? 357-372

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Betz, Phyllis M. (2009) Lesbian Romance Novels: A History and Critical Analysis Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Co

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Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)

Beyer, Jennifer Ann Perry (2000) The romance novel revolution: a study of criticisms and readers MA thesis, Bemidji State University

Topic

Bhasin, Neeta (2018) Romancing the 'Illegal' Immigrant Journal of Literature and Art Studies 8.10:1459-1474

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Serena Bell

Bigey, Magali (2007) Rencontres en séries. Matériel romanesque, lecteurs et lexique : une analyse du roman sentimental de type sériel (1942-2004) Thèse doctorat, Université de Franche-Comté

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Bigey, Magali (2010) Discorde et règlements de comptes autour du romanesque sentimental: une analyse de blogs Itinéraires 2010-2:103-112

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Bigey, Magali Olivier, Séverine (2010) Ils aiment le roman sentimental et alors? Lecteurs d'un 'mauvais genre', des lecteurs en danger? Belphégor 9.1:

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Bigey, Magali (2012) Romances en séries, amour toujours et marketing Le Temps des Médias 19:87-100

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Rader, Kara Hovick, Shelly R. Bigsby, Elisabeth (2021) “Are You Clean?” Encouraging STI Communication in Casual Encounters through Narrative Messages in Romance Novels Communication Studies ONLINE FIRST:ONLINE FIRST

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Topic

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Bloom, Clive (2002) Bestsellers: Popular Fiction Since 1900 Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan

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Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)

Effie Adelaide Rowlands, also known as Madame Albanesi

Penny Jordan/Caroline Courtney

Barbara Taylor Bradford

Barbara Cartland

Catherine Cookson

Charlotte Lamb

Bold, Rudolph (1980) Trash in the Library Library Journal 105.10:1138-1139

Topic

Dixon, Peter Bortolussi, Marisa (2009) Readers' Knowledge of Popular Genre Discourse Processes 46.6:541-571

Topic

Botts, Amber (1999) " Cavewoman Impulses: The Jungian Shadow Archetype in Popular Romantic Fiction " Romantic Conventions 62-74

Topic

Brackett, Kim Pettigrew (2000) Facework Strategies Among Romance Fiction Readers The Social Science Journal 37.3:347-360

Topic

Brouillette, Sarah (2019) Romance Work Theory & Event 22.2:451-464

Topic

Brown, Lisa L. (1990) Recovering the reader: literary theory, mass culture, and the modern romance Masters, University of Calgary

Topic

Brown, Sonya C. (2011) Does This Book Make Me Look Fat? Journal of Popular Romance Studies 1.2:

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Bruyère, Claire (1990) " La place du roman sentimental dans les pratiques culturelles de ses lectrices dans les États-Unis d’aujourd’hui " Le roman sentimental: actes du colloque des 14-15-16 mars 1989 à la Faculté des lettres de Limoges, volume 1 303-315

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Bun, Jennifer C. (2007) The Effects of Romance Novel Readership on Relationship Beliefs, Romantic Ideals, and Relational Satisfaction Honors thesis, Boston College

Topic

Burley, Stephanie (2003) " What's a Nice Girl like You Doing in a Book like This?: Homoerotic Reading and Popular Romance " Doubled Plots: Romance and History 127-146

Topic

Burnett, Ann Beto, Rhea Reinhardt (2000) Reading Romance Novels: An Application of Parasocial Relationship Theory North Dakota Journal of Speech & Theatre 13:28-39

Topic

Burnett, Hannah Eisler (2013) Shame game: Romance novels and feminist shame, a mad lib for collective feeling Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory 23.1:140-144

Topic

Buttrick, Nicholas Westgate, Erin C. Oishi, Shigehiro (2022) Reading Literary Fiction Is Associated With a More Complex Worldview Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin ONLINE FIRST:ONLINE FIRST

Topic

Armstrong, Jane Byrski, Liz Merrick, Helen (2014) Love works: Reading and writing romance in the twenty-first century Australasian Journal of Popular Culture 3.3:257-261

Topic

Cameron, Lauren (2020) The Romance Publishing Industry and Its Reputation Publishing Research Quarterly 36:1–16

Topic

Capps, Stephanie Carol (2017) What You Read and What You Believe: Genre Exposure and Beliefs about Relationships Master of Science, University of Oklahoma

Topic

Carlos, Giovana Santana (2019) Fandom e mercado literário: um mapa das mediações das fãs de romance no contexto brasileiro PhD, Unisinos

Topic

Carlos, Giovana Santana (2021) " Literatura pop feminina: as fãs de romance no Brasil " Comunicação e Culturas Urbanas: temas, debates e perspectivas 189-216

Topic

Chen, Eva Y. I. (2007) " Forms of Pleasure in the Reading of Popular Romance: Psychic and Cultural Dimensions " Empowerment versus Oppression: Twenty-First Century Views of Popular Romance Novels 30-41

Topic

Choyke, Kelly L. (2019) The Power of Popular Romance Culture: Community, Fandom, and Sexual Politics PhD, Ohio University

Topic

community

Christian-Smith, Linda K. (1988) Girl's Romance Novel Reading and What to Do about It New Advocate 1.3:177-185

Topic

Christian-Smith, Linda K. (1990) Becoming a Woman Through Romance London: Routledge

Topic

Christian-Smith, Linda K. (1993) " Voices of Resistance: Young Women Readers of Romance Fiction " Beyond Silenced Voices: Class, Race, and Gender in United States Schools 169-189

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Topic

Coles, Claire D. Shamp, M. Johnna (1984) Some Sexual, Personality, and Demographic Characteristics of Women Readers of Erotic Romances Archives of Sexual Behavior 13.3:187-209

Topic

Constans, Ellen (2009) La censure du roman sentimental en France ou le refoulement des mauvais genres Belphégor 8.2:

Topic

Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)

Crane, Lynda L. (1994) Romance Novel Readers: in Search of Feminist Change? Women's Studies 23.3:257-269

Topic

Crusie Smith, Jennifer (1997) Romancing Reality: The Power of Romance to Reinforce and Re-vision the Real Para.doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres 3.1-2:81-93

Topic

fashion/clothing

Jennifer Crusie

evolutionary psychology

Cruz-Bibb, Rosanna (2022) Patriarchy, Feminism, and The Space Between: The Production and Consumption of Feminism in Romance Novels PhD thesis, University of Georgia

Topic

Dalsgaard, Inger H. (2009) " Consumed by Romance: Narration, Branding, and Participation in the Digital Marketplace " Internet Fictions 128-146

Topic

Daniels, Mary Heather (1998) I Don't Read It for the Sex: Romance Readers and Identity Management Master of Science, Oklahoma State University

Topic

Darbyshire, Peter (2002) The Politics of Love: Harlequin Romances and the Christian Right Journal of Popular Culture 35.4:75-87

Topic

Davidge, Helen (2021) " Data science: Georgette Heyer’s historical novels and her readers " Georgette Heyer, History, and Historical Fiction 250-278 DOI:10.2307/j.ctv15d818n.19

Topic

Georgette Heyer

Davis, Mary Louise (1986) Romances and the Modern Ms.: a Study of Contemporary (Line) Romances, 1980-1984 PhD, University of Southern California

Topic

Davis, Sara N. (2005) " Values and the Romance Novel: Journeys of the Reader " Education, Arts, and Morality: Creative Journeys 45-62 DOI:10.1007/0-306-48671-7_3

Topic

de Geest, Dirk Goris, An (2010) Constrained Writing, Creative Writing: The Case of Handbooks for Writing Romances Poetics Today 31.1:81-106

Topic

DeBlase, Gina (2003) Acknowledging agency while accommodating romance: Girls negotiating meaning in literacy transactions Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy 46.8:624-635

Topic

Deller, Ruth A. Smith, Clarissa (2013) Reading the BDSM romance: Reader responses to Fifty Shades Sexualities 16.8:932–950

Topic

Reyes, Daisy Verduzco Speer, Annika C. Denes, Amanda (2021) White Women and Latina Readers’ Ambivalence Toward Fifty Shades of Grey Sexuality & Culture ONLINE FIRST:ONLINE FIRST

Topic

Dennis, Lesley Erin (2012) Pornography and Rape Myths in Paranormal Romance Novels Master of Arts, Morehead State University

Topic

Deputter, Barbara Anne (1992) Les romans Harlequin, leur contenu et leurs lectrices québécoises M. Sc, Université de Montréal

Topic

Canada

Bettinotti, Julia des Rivières, Marie-José (2000) " Un élargissement du canon littéraire : le cas du roman d'amour " Que vaut la littérature? 357-372

Topic

Diekman, Amanda B. McDonald, Mary Gardner, Wendi L. (2000) Love means never having to be careful: The relationship between reading romance novels and safe sex behavior Psychology of Women Quarterly 24.2:179-188

Topic

Dixon, Peter Bortolussi, Marisa (2009) Readers' Knowledge of Popular Genre Discourse Processes 46.6:541-571

Topic

Douglas, Ann (1980) Soft-Porn Culture: Punishing the Liberated Woman The New Republic 183.9:25-29

Topic

Downey, Kristin (2005) Irony, Ideology, and Resistance: The Amazing Double Life of Harlequin Presents PhD, McMaster University

Topic

Drakulić-Ilić, Slavenka (1984) Smrtni grijesi feminizma. Ogledi u mudologiji Zagreb: Znanje

Topic

Dreimane, Jana (2015) Authors, Publishers and Readers of Popular Literature in Latvia in the Late 1980s and Early 1990s Interlitteraria 20.2:56–70

Topic

Hedwig Courths-Mahler

Ethel M. Dell

Driscoll, Beth (2019) Book Blogs as Tastemakers Participations 16.1:280-305

Topic

Wilkins, Kim Driscoll, Beth Fletcher, Lisa (2022) Genre Worlds: Popular Fiction and 21st-Century Book Culture Amherst and Boston: University of Massachusetts Press

Topic

Dubino, Jeanne (1993) The Cinderella Complex: Romance Fiction, Patriarchy, and Capitalism Journal of Popular Culture 27.3:103-118

Topic

Dugger, Julie M. (2014) “I’m a Feminist, But…” Popular Romance in the Women’s Literature Classroom Journal of Popular Romance Studies 4.2:

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Ebert, Teresa L. (1988) The Romance of Patriarchy: Ideology, Subjectivity, and Postmodern Feminist Cultural Theory Cultural Critique 10:19-57

Topic

Ehnenn, Jill (1998) Desperately Seeking Susan Among the Trash: Reinscription, Subversion and Visibility in the Lesbian Romance Novel Atlantis 23.1:120-127

Topic

family

Ellis, Kate (1987) " Gimme Shelter: Feminism, Fantasy, and Women's Popular Fiction " American Media and Mass Culture: Left Perspectives 216-230

Topic

virginity

Bennett, Tony Emmison, Michael Frow, John (1999) Accounting for Tastes: Australian Everyday Cultures Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Topic

Encanto, Georgina R. (2008) Savoring Romance Pinoy Style in Foreign Climes: Why Women Migrants Love Reading Tagalog Romance Novels Review of Women's Studies 18.1:27-52

Topic

Philippines

English, Jessica (2017) Reading the Romance: Through the Eyes of a Millenial Feminist Masters of Science in Communication, Eastern Washington University

Topic

Adkins, Denice Esser, Linda Velasquez, Diane (2006) Relations Between Librarians and Romance Readers: A Missouri Survey Public Libraries 45.4:54-64

Topic

Topic

Farooqui, Javaria (2022) Reading historical popular romance in 21st-century Pakistan PhD thesis, University of Tasmania

Topic

Farooqui, Javaria (2022) Romance in an Old Bookshop The Bridge Magazine 1:66-69

Topic

Farooqui, Javaria (2022) " Romance, Austen, and English-Medium Schooling in Pakistan " Language, Education, and Identity: Medium in South Asia

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Topic

Topic

Topic

Fekete, Maleah (2022) Confluent Love and the Evolution of Ideal Intimacy: Romance Reading in 1980 and 2016 Journal of Popular Romance Studies 11:

Topic

Feng, Jin (2009) "Addicted to Beauty": Consuming and Producing Web-based Chinese Danmei Fiction at Jinjiang Modern Chinese Literature and Culture 21.2:1-41

Topic

China

m/m romance

Fernández Rodríguez, Carolina (2018) " Del cuento de hadas a la novela romántica: Una visión de la sub/literatura como gimnasio mental y laboratorio de sub/versión cultural " Repercusión de la lectura y otras formas de arte en nuestra vida y nuestra obra: Memorias del VII coloquio de LART, Centro Español de Manhattan, Nueva York, 26-28 de octubre de 2016 69-95

Topic

fairytales/folktales

Fleites-Lear, Marisela (2009) ¿Victoria contra Corín Tellado?: La novela rosa revolucionaria cubana y la ficción en Mujeres Romance Notes 49.1:91-100

Topic

Corín Tellado

Cuba

Fletcher, Lisa (2014) Writing the Happy Ever After: An Interview with Anne Gracie Journal of Popular Romance Studies 4.2:

Topic

Anne Gracie

Fletcher, Lisa McAlister, Jodi Temple, Kurt Williams, Kathleen (2019) #loveyourshelfie: Mills & Boon books and how to find them Mémoires du livre / Studies in Book Culture 11.1:

Topic

Wilkins, Kim Driscoll, Beth Fletcher, Lisa (2022) Genre Worlds: Popular Fiction and 21st-Century Book Culture Amherst and Boston: University of Massachusetts Press

Topic

Fong, Katrina Mullin, Justin B. Mar, Raymond A. (2013) What You Read Matters: The Role of Fiction Genre in Predicting Interpersonal Sensitivity Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts 7.4:370-376

Topic

Fong, Katrina Mullin, Justin B. Mar, Raymond A. (2015) How Exposure to Literary Genres Relates to Attitudes Toward Gender Roles and Sexual Behavior Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts 9.3:274–285

Topic

Fordham, Helen (2014) ‘That’s love for you’: Destabilizing divides and re-imaging subjectivities in the romantic fiction of Eloisa James Australasian Journal of Popular Culture 3.3:273-284

Topic

Eloisa James

Shakespeare

Foster, Guy Mark (2007) " How Dare a Black Woman Make Love to a White Man! Black Women Romance Novelists and the Taboo of Interracial Desire " Empowerment versus Oppression: Twenty-First Century Views of Popular Romance Novels 103-128

Topic

Fowler, Bridget (1979) "True to Me Always": An Analysis of Women's Magazine Fiction The British Journal of Sociology 30.1:91-119

Topic

Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)

Fowler, Bridget (1991) The Alienated Reader: Women and Romantic Literature in the Twentieth Century Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf

Frantz, Sarah S. G. (2002) " "Expressing" Herself: The Romance Novel and the Feminine Will to Power " Scorned Literature: Essays on the History and Criticism of Popular Mass-Produced Fiction in America 17-36

Topic

Frantz, Sarah S. G. (2009) Darcy’s Vampiric Descendants: Austen’s Perfect Romance Hero and J. R. Ward’s Black Dagger Brotherhood Persuasions 30.1:

Topic

Frederick, Rhonda D. (2022) Evidence of Things Not Seen: Fantastical Blackness in Genre Fictions : Rutgers University Press

Topic

Williams, Clover Freedman, Jean R. (1995) " Shakespeare's Step-Sisters: Romance Novels and the Community of Women " Folklore, Literature, and Cultural Theory: Collected Essays 135-168

Topic

Frost, Laura (2006) " The Romance of Cliché: E. M. Hull, D. H. Lawrence, and Interwar Erotic Fiction " Bad Modernisms 94-118 DOI:10.2307/j.ctv125jq8v.8

Topic

E. M. Hull

Frost, Laura (2013) The Problem with Pleasure: Modernism and Its Discontents New York: Columbia University Press

Topic

E. M. Hull

Bennett, Tony Emmison, Michael Frow, John (1999) Accounting for Tastes: Australian Everyday Cultures Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Topic

Gallon, Kim (2013) “How Much Can You Read about Interracial Love and Sex without Getting Sore?”: Readers’ Debate over Interracial Relationships in the Baltimore Afro-American Journalism History 39.2:104-114

Topic

Ganapathy, Subha (2002) Who Is Afraid of Romance Novels?: Women Readers, Patriarchy and Popular Culture PhD thesis, Mother Teresa Women’s University

Topic

Ganguly, Keya (1991) Alien(ated) Readers: Harlequin Romances and the Politics of Popular Culture Communication 12.2:129-150

Topic

Gardner, Dora Abigail (2019) Defending the Bodice Ripper MA thesis, Eastern Kentucky University

Topic

Topic

Gates, Sarah (2016) Feminism, NASCAR and the Italian billionaire's secret baby: Defending the romance genre Voiceworks 103 (Autumn):95-101

Topic

Gautier-Villon, Claire-Elizabeth (1994) The Appeal of the Mass-Market Romance M.A., University of Alberta

Topic

Gilbert, Pam Taylor, Sandra (1991) Fashioning the Feminine: Girls, Popular Culture, and Schooling North Sydney, Australia: Allen & Unwin

Topic

Gilbert, Pam (1993) " Dolly Fictions: Teen Romance Down Under " Texts of Desire: Essays on Fiction, Femininity and Schooling 69-?? DOI:10.4324/9781315810119

Topic

Gilbert, Pam Taylor, Sandra (1993) " Reading the Romance " Nation, Culture, Text: Australian Cultural and Media Studies 246-256 DOI:10.4324/9780203131992

Topic

Goade, Sally (2007) " Introduction " Empowerment versus Oppression: Twenty-First Century Views of Popular Romance Novels 1-11

Topic

Goade, Sally (2007) " Understanding the Pleasure: An Undergraduate Romance Reading Community " Empowerment versus Oppression: Twenty-First Century Views of Popular Romance Novels 206-230

Topic

Samuel Richardson

Catherine Anderson

Golubov, Nattie (2017) El amor en tiempos neoliberales: apuntes críticos sobre la novela rosa contemporánea Ciudad de México: Bonilla Artigas

Topic

Golubov, Nattie (2017) Reading the Romance Writer as an Author-Entrepreneur Interférences littéraires/Literaire interferenties 21:131-160

Topic

Golubov, Nattie (2022) " La promesa de felicidad: la novela rosa y el placer de la lectura afectiva " El placer de la lectura: cuerpos, afectos, textos 65-94

Topic

happy ending

Gómez, Sarah Hannah (2022) " Romance Has Broken My Dichotomous Key " Black Love Matters: Real Talk on Romance, Being Seen, and Happily Ever After 189-205

Topic

Gómez Gray, Alana (2018) Lectura, paraliteratura y mujeres en España: de la novela rosa a cincuenta sombras Arenal 25.1:215-236

Topic

de Geest, Dirk Goris, An (2010) Constrained Writing, Creative Writing: The Case of Handbooks for Writing Romances Poetics Today 31.1:81-106

Topic

Goris, An (2011) Matricide in Romance Scholarship? Response to Pamela Regis’ Keynote Address at the Second Annual Conference of the International Association for the Study of Popular Romance Journal of Popular Romance Studies 2.1:

Topic

Goris, An (2012) Mind, Body, Love: Nora Roberts and the Evolution of Popular Romance Studies Journal of Popular Romance Studies 3.1:

Topic

Goris, An (2013) Happily Ever After ... And After: Serialization and the Popular Romance Novel Americana: The Journal of American Popular Culture (1900-present) 12.1:

Topic

Graham, Robert J. (1989) Media Literacy and Cultural Politics Adult Education Quarterly 39.3:152-160

Topic

Green, Marie (2006) Fantasy, fiction, and feminism: a study of feminists reading romance Master of Arts, University of Saskatchewan

Topic

Jasmine Cresswell

Greenfeld-Benovitz, Miriam (2014) " The Interactive Romance Community: The Case of "Covers Gone Wild" " New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction: Critical Essays 195-205

Topic

community

Gregson, Joanna Lois, Jennifer (2021) " Social science reads romance " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 335-351 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-15

Topic

Griffin, Linda (1999) An Analysis of Meaning Creation through the Integration of Sociology and Literature: A Critical Ethnography of a Romance Reading Group Doctor of Education, University of Houston and Rice University

Topic

Griffin, Susan E. (1997) " Resistance and Reinvention in Sandra Cisneros' Woman Hollering Creek " Ethnicity and the American Short Story 85-96

Topic

Corín Tellado

Hague, Euan Stenhouse, David (2007) " A Very Interesting Place: Representing Scotland in American Romance Novels " The Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Scottish Literature 354-361

Topic

Hague, Euan (2014) " Mass Market Romance Fiction and the Representation of Scotland in the United States " The Modern Scottish Diaspora: Contemporary Debates and Perspectives 171-190

Topic

Scotland

Hallock, Jennifer (2018) History Ever After: Fabricated Historical Chronotopes in Romance Genre Fiction 2018 IASPR conference :

Topic

science fiction/futuristic romance

Hanson, Donna Maree (2022) Romance fiction as a bridge to understanding changing gender roles in society PhD in Creative Writing, University of Canberra

Topic

Rachel Lee/Sue Civil-Brown

Rosemary Carter

Darynda Jones

Penny Jordan/Caroline Courtney

Daphne Clair

Hapgood, Lynne (2005) Margins of Desire: The Suburbs in Fiction and Culture, 1880-1925 Manchester: Manchester University Press

Topic

Harlan, Kimber Leigh (2005) Romancing the reader: constructing a discursive and social female identity through romance novels Master of Arts, Tarleton State University

Topic

Harman, Sarah Jones, Bethan (2013) Fifty shades of ghey: Snark fandom and the figure of the anti-fan Sexualities 16.8:951–968

Topic

Harrison, Rachel (1980) Women and Romantic Fiction: Subordination and Resistance M.Litt, University of Birmingham

Topic

Haruna, Alkasim Abd Aziz, Noor Hashima (2019) Towards an Understanding of the Efferent Reading Stance of Hausa Popular Romance Novels European Academic Research 6.12:6829-6839

Topic

Topic

Helgorsky, Françoise (1985) Harlequin ou la quête du grand amour Communication et langages 63:83-98

Topic

Margo Hendricks/Elysabeth Grace

love

Hendricks, Margo (2022) " How a Black Author Found Her Romance History " Black Love Matters: Real Talk on Romance, Being Seen, and Happily Ever After 95-120

Topic

Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)

Topic

Hermes, Joke (1992) Sexuality in Lesbian Romance Fiction Feminist Review 42.1:49-66

Topic

Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)

Sarah Aldridge

Katherine V. Forrest

Valerie Taylor

Michelle Martin

Hernández Guerrero, María José (2016) Prosumidoras de traducciones: Aproximación al fenómeno de la traducción fan de novela romántica Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada 29.1:88-114

Topic

Herrera, Carolina M. (2022) Examining the relation between media engagement and developmental outcomes in adolescents and emerging adults: an exploration of engagement with and impact of young adult literature media among youth PhD thesis, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey

Topic

Hirst, Holly (2020) " The Gothic Romance " The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Gothic 357-372 DOI:10.1007/978-3-030-33136-8_22

Topic

Phyllis A. Whitney

Christine Marion Fraser

Georgette Heyer

Holmes, Diana (2010) The Comfortable Reader: Romantic Bestsellers and Critical Disdain French Cultural Studies 21.4:287-296

Topic

Thompson, Marcella Koski, Patricia Holyfield, Lori (1997) Romance and agency: An argument revisited Sociological Spectrum 17.4:437-451

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Houel, Annik (1997) Le roman d’amour et sa lectrice: une si longue passion: l’exemple Harlequin Paris: L’Harmattan

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Hughes, Helen (1993) The Historical Romance London and New York: Routledge

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Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)

Georgette Heyer

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Mira Stables

Rowena Tenet

Willinsky, John Hunniford, R. Mark (1993) " Reading the Romance Younger: The Mirrors and Fears of a Preparatory Literature " Texts of Desire: Essays on Fiction, Femininity and Schooling 87–105 DOI:10.4324/9781315810119

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Huntwork, Mary M. (1990) Why Girls Flock to Sweet Valley High School Library Journal 36.3:137-140

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Hurley, Frances K. (1999) In the Words of Girls: The Reading of Adolescent Romance Fiction Doctor of Education, Harvard University

Topic

Hutton-Jarvis, C. A. (1998) The educational potential of romantic fiction PhD, University of Leeds

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Hyejin, O (2020) 원본 없는 판타지 : 페미니스트 시각으로 읽는 한국 현대문화사 Seoul: Humanitas

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Korea

Interracial Books for Children Bulletin, (1981) Romance Series for Young Readers: A Report to Educators and Parents in Concert with the National Education Association New York: The Council on Interracial Books for Children

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Iqbal, Kundan (2014) The impact of romance novels on women's sexual and reproductive health Journal of Family Planning & Reproductive Health Care 40:300–302

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Ivanski, Chantelle Maslej, Marta M. Mar, Raymond A. (2022) " Empirical Approaches to Studying Emotion in Literature: The Case of Gender " The Routledge Companion to Literature and Emotion DOI:10.4324/9780367809843-8

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Izharuddin, Alicia (2021) Counterpublics of care: making space for mediated intimacy and romantic self-making in Malaysia Gender, Place & Culture :

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Izharuddin, Alicia (2021) Reading the Digital Muslim Romance CyberOrient 15.1:146-171

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Muslim romance

Malaysia

Islam

Izharuddin, Alicia (2021) “Redha tu Ikhlas”: The Social–Textual Significance of Islamic Virtue in Malay Forced Marriage Narratives Religions 12.5 (310):

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Muslim romance

Jackson, Stevi (1995) " Women and Heterosexual Love: Complicity, Resistance and Change " Romance Revisited 49-62

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Thomas, Glen James, Bridie (2006) " The Romance Industry: A Study of Reading and Writing Romance " The Reinvention of Everyday Life: Culture in the twenty-first century 164-174

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Jarc, Klara (2019) Ljubezenski roman v Sloveniji: knjižnična izposoja, bralci in produkcija , Univerza v Ljubljani

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Jarmakani, Amira (2011) Desiring the Big Bad Blade: Racing the Sheikh in Desert Romances American Quarterly 63.4:895-928

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Islam

Spain

Jarvis, Christine (1995) Romancing the Curriculum: Empowerment through Popular Culture Convergence 28.3:71-77

Topic

Jarvis, Christine (1999) Love Changes Everything: The Transformative Potential of Popular Romantic Fiction Studies in the Education of Adults 31.2:109-123

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Jarvis, Christine (2006) Using Fiction for Transformation New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education 109:69-77

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Jarvis, Christine A. (2003) Desirable Reading: The Relationship between Women Students' Lives and their Reading Practices Adult Education Quarterly 53.4:261-276

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Jensen, Margaret Ann (1980) Women and Romantic Fiction: A Case Study of Harlequin Enterprises, Romances, and Readers PhD, McMaster University

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Jensen, Margaret Ann (1984) Love's $weet Return: The Harlequin Story Toronto: The Women's Educational Press

Harman, Sarah Jones, Bethan (2013) Fifty shades of ghey: Snark fandom and the figure of the anti-fan Sexualities 16.8:951–968

Topic

Juhasz, Suzanne (1988) Texts to Grow On: Reading Women’s Romance Fiction Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature 7.2:239-259

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Juhasz, Suzanne (1994) Reading from the Heart: Women, Literature, and the Search for True Love New York: Viking

Topic

Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)

Juhasz, Suzanne (1998) Lesbian Romance Fiction and the Plotting of Desire: Narrative Theory, Lesbian Identity, and Reading Practice Tulsa Studies In Women's Literature 17.1:65-82

Topic

Kraaykamp, Gerbert Kalmijn, Matthijs (1995) Een stille liefde. Over de lezeressen van romantische lectuur Mens en maatschappij 70.2:120-137

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Netherlands

Kamble, Jayashree (2007) " Female Enfranchisement and the Popular Romance: Employing an Indian Perspective " Empowerment versus Oppression: Twenty-First Century Views of Popular Romance Novels 148-173

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Kamble, Jayashree (2008) Uncovering and Recovering the Popular Romance Novel PhD, University of Minnesota

Topic

Kapell, Matthew Becker, Suzanne (2005) Patriarchy, the Christian Romance Novel, and the 'Ecosystem of Sex' Popular Culture Review 16.1:147-155

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Keen, Suzanne (2018) Probable Impossibilities: Historical Romance Readers Talk Back Style: A Quarterly Journal of Aesthetics, Poetics, Stylistics, and Literary Criticism 52.1-2:127-132

Topic

Diana Gabaldon

Kendal, Evie (2019) The use of free indirect discourse in J. R. Ward's Black Dagger Brotherhood series Colloquy: Text, Theory, Critique 38:20-43

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Kinard, Amanda Marette (1999) Forbidden Pleasures: The Romance and Its Readers PhD, Vanderbilt University

Topic

Kinsale, Laura (1992) " The Androgynous Reader: Point of View in the Romance " Dangerous Men and Adventurous Women: Romance Writers on the Appeal of the Romance 31-44

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Kiyawa, Haruna Alkasim (2021) Female Readers as Literary Critics: Reading Experiences of Kano Market Romance Fiction International Journal of English and Comparative Literary Studies 2.1:34-45

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Nigeria

Kraxenberger, Maria Knoop, Christine A. Menninghaus, Winfried (2021) Who reads contemporary erotic novels and why? Humanities and Social Sciences Communications 8:

Topic

Thompson, Marcella Koski, Patricia Holyfield, Lori (1997) Romance and agency: An argument revisited Sociological Spectrum 17.4:437-451

Topic

Kraaykamp, Gerbert Kalmijn, Matthijs (1995) Een stille liefde. Over de lezeressen van romantische lectuur Mens en maatschappij 70.2:120-137

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Netherlands

Lawrey, Jeffrey A. McLuckie, Alyx Mulberry, Benjamin J. Mullins, Erin K. Shuler, Autumn R. Kratzer, Jessica M. W. (2018) " Communication, Kink, and Sexual Education: What Young Women Learned from Fifty Shades of Grey " Communication in Kink: Understanding the Influence of the Fifty Shades of Grey Phenomenon 77-96

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Kraxenberger, Maria Knoop, Christine A. Menninghaus, Winfried (2021) Who reads contemporary erotic novels and why? Humanities and Social Sciences Communications 8:

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Kray, Susan (1987) Deconstructive Laughter: Romance Author as Subject, The Pleasure of Writing the Text Journal of Communication Inquiry 11.2:26-46

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Krentz, Jayne Ann (1992) Dangerous Men and Adventurous Women: Romance Writers on the Appeal of the Romance Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press

Topic

Laura Kinsale

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)

Daphne Clair

Suzanne Simmons Guntrum

Diana Palmer

Kathleen Gilles Seidel

Kress, Gunther (1988) " Textual Matters: The Social Effectiveness of Style " Functions of Style 126-141

Topic

Shapiro, Joan Kroeger, Lee (1991) Is Life a Romantic Novel? The Relationship Between Attitudes About Intimate Relationships and the Popular Media American Journal of Family Therapy 19.3:226-236

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Kuchta, Estella Carolye (2021) " Imagining Love: Teen Romance Novels and American Teen Relational Capacity " International Handbook of Love: Transcultural and Transdisciplinary Perspectives 827-842 DOI:10.1007/978-3-030-45996-3_44

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Kutzer, M. Daphne (1986) "I Won't Grow up"—Yet: Teen Formula Romance Children's Literature Association Quarterly 11.2:90-95

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Lam, Maylyn (1986) Reading the sweet dream: adolescent girls and romance fiction M.Ed. thesis, University of Melbourne

Topic

Lambert Barr, DeAnn M. (1996) Romance-novel genre Master of Arts, California State University, Dominguez Hills

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Topic

Lecercle, Jean-Jacques (2022) " Interpellation and Counter-Interpellation in the Novel " The Rhetoric of Literary Communication: From Classical English Novels to Contemporary Digital Fiction DOI:10.4324/9781003094050-7

Topic

Violet Winspear

Jane Austen

Levina, Mariia (2003) Readers of Mass Literature, 1994-200: From Paternalism to Individualism? Russian Studies in Literature 40.1:79-95

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Russia

Lin, Chi-Shiou Liang, Yu-Tzu (2020) A model of romance fiction search behavior iConference 2020 Proceedings :

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Light, Alison (1984) Returning to Manderley – Romance Fiction, Female Sexuality and Class Feminist Review 16:7-25

Topic

Lin, Chi-Shiou Liang, Yu-Tzu (2020) A model of romance fiction search behavior iConference 2020 Proceedings :

Topic

Lindström Kruse, Miranda (2022) Pinsamma läsningar: En affektteoretisk studie av #SpicyBooks på TikTok Masters thesis, Uppsala universitet

Topic

Livingston, Eric (2006) The Textuality of Pleasure New Literary History 37.3:655-672

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close reading

Gina Wilkins

Gregson, Joanna Lois, Jennifer (2021) " Social science reads romance " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 335-351 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-15

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Long, Bridget L. (2006) Romance novels: women's motivation for readership and effects of reading MA, Central Michigan University

Topic

Long, Bridget L. (2007) " Women's Romance Novel Readership: Motivations, Expectations, and Relationship Satisfaction "

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Long, Veronica Lee (2022) Individuation and the Romance Novel PhD thesis, Pacifica Graduate Institute

Topic

Lövgren, Karin (1991) " Farlig lockelse - tonårsflickors läsning av romantikböcker " Om unga kvinnor: identitet, kultur och livsvillkor 97-117

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Luther, Amy Victoria (2010) Men reading fiction: A study of the relationship between reader, (con)text, consumption and gender identity. PhD, Cardiff University

Topic

Maher, Jennifer (2001) Ripping the Bodice: Eating, Reading, and Revolt College Literature 28.1:64-83

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Mann, Peter H. (1969) The Romantic Novel: A Survey of Reading Habits London: Mills & Boon

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Mann, Peter H. (1974) A New Survey: The Facts About Romantic Fiction London: Mills & Boon

Topic

Mann, Peter H. (1979) " Romantic Fiction and Its Readers " Entertainment: A Cross-Cultural Examination 34-42

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Mann, Peter H. (1981) The Romantic Novel and its Readers Journal of Popular Culture 15.1:9-18

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Mann, Peter H. (1985) Romantic Fiction and Its Readership Poetics 14.1-2:95-105

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Marchand, Jacques (1983) Harlequin et Colombine : l’industrie plafonne, l’amour aussi Études littéraires 16.3:351–362

Topic

settings

Margolis, Harriet (1992) " Feminist Irony or Poisonous FANTASY?: Category Romance and the Conscious Reader " Yearbook of Interdisciplinary Studies in the Fine Arts, Volume 3 165-178

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Margolis, Harriet (1995) The Lover's Value(s): Women's Romance Novels in an Exchange-Based Society Conference Papers (New Zealand Women's Studies Association Annual Meeting, 1994) :78-82

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Topic

Mayhew, Lilybeth M. (1994) The series romance: the changing representation of gender relationships within a popular genre Master of Arts (Hons.), University of Wollongong

Topic

McAleer, Joseph (1989) Popular Literature and Reading Habits in Britain, 1914-1950 D.Phil. (also referred to as a PhD thesis), St John's College, University of Oxford

Topic

McAleer, Joseph (1999) Passion's Fortune: The Story of Mills & Boon Oxford: Oxford University Press

Topic

Mary Burchell, pen name of Ida Cook

Betty Beaty

Elizabeth Carfrae

Fay Chandos/Jan Tempest

Sophie Cole

Lilian Warren as Kathryn Blair/Rosalind Brett/Celine Conway

Iris Danbury

Joyce Dingwell/Kate Starr

Roberta Leigh/Rachel Lindsay

Jean S. MacLeod/Catherine Airlie

Mary Lutyens/Esther Wyndham

Kate Norway/Olive Norton

Denise Robins

Sara Seale

Juliet Shore/Anne Vinton

Ireland

McAlister, Jodi (2016) “You and I are humans, and there is something complicated between us”: Untamed and queering the heterosexual historical romance Journal of Popular Romance Studies 5.2:

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Fletcher, Lisa McAlister, Jodi Temple, Kurt Williams, Kathleen (2019) #loveyourshelfie: Mills & Boon books and how to find them Mémoires du livre / Studies in Book Culture 11.1:

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McAlister, Jodi Parnell, Claire Trinidad, Andrea Anne (2020) #RomanceClass: Genre World, Intimate Public, Found Family Publishing Research Quarterly 36:403–417

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McAlister, Jodi (2020) The Consummate Virgin: Female Virginity Loss and Love in Anglophone Popular Literatures Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan

Parnell, Claire Trinidad, Andrea Anne McAlister, Jodi (2021) Live literature in the Philippines: an ethnographic study of #RomanceClass and reading as performance Creative Industries Journal ONLINE FIRST:ONLINE FIRST

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McAlister, Jodi (2021) New Adult Fiction Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

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Topic

McGurl, Mark (2021) Unspeakable Conventionality: The Perversity of the Kindle American Literary History 33.2:394–415

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Topic

Meirelles, Simone (2008) Romances com coração: leitura e edição de romances sentimentais no Brasil PhD, Universidade Federal do Paraná

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Meirelles, Simone Regina Ferreira (2002) Das bancas ao coraçao: romances sentimentais e leitura hoje Mestre em Letras, Universidade Federal do Paraná

Topic

Kraxenberger, Maria Knoop, Christine A. Menninghaus, Winfried (2021) Who reads contemporary erotic novels and why? Humanities and Social Sciences Communications 8:

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Armstrong, Jane Byrski, Liz Merrick, Helen (2014) Love works: Reading and writing romance in the twenty-first century Australasian Journal of Popular Culture 3.3:257-261

Topic

Meyer, Michaela D. E. (2015) Living the Romance through Castle: Exploring Autoethnography, Popular Culture and Romantic Television Narratives The Popular Culture Studies Journal 3.1&2:245-269

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Micheletti, Ellen (2010) Wandering the Web Wandering-Reviews of Romance Novels: Online Sources for Evaluating Popular Fiction Against the Grain 22.4:48

Topic

Michelson, Anna (2021) The politics of happily-ever-after: romance genre fiction as aesthetic public sphere American Journal of Cultural Sociology 9:177–210

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fascism/right-wing authoritarianism

Michelson, Anna (2022) Redefining the Romance: Classification and Community in a Popular Fiction Genre PhD thesis, Northwestern University

Topic

Native American romance

Miles, Angela (1988) Confessions of a Harlequin Reader: Romance and the Myth of Male Mothers Canadian Journal of Political and Social Theory 12. 1-2:1-37

Topic

Mitchell, Karen S. (1996) Ever After: Reading the Women Who Read (and Re-Write) Romances Theatre Topics 6.1:51-69

Topic

Lisa Gregory

Modleski, Tania (1980) The Disappearing Act: A Study of Harlequin Romances Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 5.3:435-448

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Modleski, Tania (1982) Loving with a Vengeance: Mass‐Produced Fantasies for Women Hamden, Connecticut: Archon

Topic

Modleski, Tania (1997) My Life as a Romance Reader Para.doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres 3.1-2:15-28

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Brenda Joyce

Moffitt, Mary Anne (1993) Articulating Meaning: Reconceptions of the Meaning Process, Fantasy/Reality, and Identity in Leisure Activities Communication Theory 3.3:231-251

Topic

Moffitt, Mary Anne (1993) Leisure Fiction and the Audience: Meaning and Communication Strategies Women's Studies in Communication 16.2:27-61

Topic

Moffitt, Mary Anne Smeltzer (1990) Understanding Middle-Class Adolescent Leisure: A Cultural Studies Approach to Romance Novel Reading PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Topic

Moody, Stephanie (2016) " Building Social Worlds: Examining Women’s Uses of Romance Novels " Literacy in Practice: Writing in Private, Public and Working Lives 32-45

Topic

Moody, Stephanie (2016) Identification, Affect, and Escape: Theorizing Popular Romance Reading Pedagogy 16.1:105-123

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Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Moody, Stephanie Lee (2013) Affecting Genre: Women's Participation with Popular Romance Fiction PhD, University of Michigan

Topic

Moore, Kate Selinger, Eric Murphy (2012) The Heroine as Reader, the Reader as Heroine: Jennifer Crusie’s Welcome to Temptation Journal of Popular Romance Studies 2.2:

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Topic

Moran, Albert (1990) "No More Virgins": Writing Romance ‐ an Interview with Emma Darcy Continuum: The Australian Journal of Media & Culture 4.1:37-53

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Emma Darcy

Moreno-Álvarez, Alejandra (2021) " Romance Novels in Postcolonial India: From Mills & Boon to Pageturn’s Red Romance Series " Romantic Escapes: Post-Millennial Trends in Contemporary Popular Romance Fiction 223-241

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India

Morrissey, Katherine (2016) Romance Networks: Aspiration & Desire in Today’s Digital Culture PhD, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

Topic

Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)

erotic romance

Morton, Leith (2015) The reinvention of romance: The rewriting, reception and censorship of 'ninjobon' in modern Japan Journal of the Oriental Society of Australia 47:85-115

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Moss, Gemma (1989) Un/Popular Fictions London: Virago

Topic

Moss, Gemma (1993) " Girls Tell the Teen Romance: Four Reading Histories " Reading Audiences: Young People and the Media 116-134

Topic

Moss, Gemma (1993) " The Place for Romance in Young People's Writing " Texts of Desire: Essays on Fiction, Femininity and Schooling 106–125 DOI:10.4324/9781315810119

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Muram, David Rosenthal, Ted L. Tolley, Elizabeth A. Peeler, Molly M. Pitts, Bridget (1992) Teenage Pregnancy: Dating and Sexual Attitudes Journal of Sex Education and Therapy 18.4:264-276

Topic

Mussell, Kay (1981) Women’s Gothic and Romantic Fiction: A Reference Guide Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press

Topic

Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)

Catharine Maria Sedgwick

Augusta Jane Evans

E. D. E. N. Southworth

Margaret Mitchell

Daphne du Maurier

Mary Stewart

Phyllis A. Whitney

Rosemary Rogers

Kathleen Thompson Norris

Grace Livingston Hill

film/movies

Mussell, Kay (1984) Fantasy and Reconciliation: Contemporary Formulas of Women’s Romance Fiction Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press

Mussell, Kay (1997) On-Line Romance Para.doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres 3.1-2:246-249

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Mussell, Kay (1997) Where's Love Gone? Transformations in Romance Fiction and Scholarship Para.doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres 3.1-2:3-14

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Mussell, Kay J. (1983) " "But Why Do They Read Those Things?": The Female Audience and the Gothic Novel " The Female Gothic 57-68

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Neal, Lynn S. (2000) Romancing God: Reading Evangelical Romance Novels PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Topic

Neal, Lynn S. (2006) Romancing God: Evangelical Women and Inspirational Fiction Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press

Topic

Grace Livingston Hill

Neal, Lynn S. (2013) " Evangelical Love Stories: The Triumphs and Temptations of Romantic Fiction " Evangelical Christians and Popular Culture: Pop Goes the Gospel. Volume 2: Literature, Music, Popular Art, and Merchandise 1–20

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Neuman, Susan B. (1985) The Uses of Reading Mass-Produced Romance Fiction Annual Meeting of the International Reading Association (30th, New Orleans, LA, May 5-9, 1985): ERIC document ED263528

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Sue Byfield

Nibafasha, Spes (2020) The politics of the popular: Definitions and uses of African popular fiction Hybrid Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies 2.4:59-75

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Africa

Nielsen, Inge (2000) Caught in the Web of Love: Intercepting the Young Adult Reception of Qiongyao's Romances On-Line Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 53.3-4:235-253

Topic

O'Mahony, Lauren (2021) " Australian romance fiction " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 72-96 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-3

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national identity

Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)

Stella Eromonsere-Ajanaku

Rosa Praed

Marie Bjelke Petersen

O'Neil, Kathryn M. (2016) Women's rhetoric and the romance novel genre Master of Arts, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

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Topic

Oklopčić, Biljana (2016) Medieval heresy in Croatian historical romances: a case study of Marija Jurić Zagorka’s Plameni inkvizitori Neohelicon 43.2:559–576

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Marija Jurić Zagorka

Croatia

Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)

national identity

Olivier, Séverine (2005) Passionnément, à la folie...: Lecteurs et modes de lecture du roman d'amour contemporain Belphégor 4.2:

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Olivier, Séverine (2009) Le roman sentimental. Productions contemporaines et pratiques de lecture PhD, Université Libre de Bruxelles

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Bigey, Magali Olivier, Séverine (2010) Ils aiment le roman sentimental et alors? Lecteurs d'un 'mauvais genre', des lecteurs en danger? Belphégor 9.1:

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Olivier, Séverine (2012) Francophone Perspectives on Romantic Fiction: From the Academic Field to Reader’s Experience Journal of Popular Romance Studies 2.2:

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Opas, Lisa Lena Tweedie, Fiona (1999) The Magic Carpet Ride: Reader Involvement in Romantic Fiction Literary and Linguistic Computing 14.1:89-101

Topic

Danielle Steel

Osborne, Gwendolyn E. (2003) " In Search of Women Who Look Like Me: A Brief History of the African-American Romance " The 2000-2003 Proceedings of the SW/Texas PCA/ACA Conference 2020-2044

Topic

Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)

Osborne, Gwendolyn E. (2004) " "Women Who Look Like Me": Cultural Identity and Reader Responses to African American Romance Novels " Race/Gender/Media: Considering Diversity Across Audiences, Content, and Producers 61-68

Topic

Owen, Mairead (1990) Women's Reading of Popular Romantic Fiction: A Case Study in the Mass Media: A Key to the Ideology of Women PhD, University of Liverpool

Topic

Owen, Mairead (1997) Re-inventing romance: Reading popular romantic fiction Women's Studies International Forum 20.4:537-546

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Pagliassotti, Dru (2010) " Better than Romance? Japanese BL Manga and the Subgenre of Male/Male Romantic Fiction " Boys’ Love Manga: Essays on the Sexual Ambiguity and Cross-Cultural Fandom of the Genre 59-83

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Paizis, George (1986) 'Reine ou esclave .... ': conflicting images of women in the contemporary 'romantic novel' in France PhD, University of London, Birkbeck

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Paizis, George (1998) Love and the Novel: The Poetics and Politics of Romantic Fiction Houndmills, Basingstoke: Macmillan

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Parameswaran, Radhika (1999) Western Romance Fiction as English-Language Media in Postcolonial India Journal of Communication 49.3:84-105

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Parameswaran, Radhika (2002) Reading Fictions of Romance: Gender, Sexuality, and Nationalism in Postcolonial India Journal of Communication 52.4:832-851

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Parameswaran, Radhika E. (1994) " Romance Reading in the Third World: A Postcolonial Intersection of Gender, Ethnicity, and Sexuality " Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (77th, Atlanta, Georgia, August 10-13, 1994). Part IV: International Media 71-102

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Parameswaran, Radhika E. (1997) Public Images, Private Pleasures: Romance Reading at the Intersection of Gender, Class, and National Identities in Urban India PhD, University of Iowa

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McAlister, Jodi Parnell, Claire Trinidad, Andrea Anne (2020) #RomanceClass: Genre World, Intimate Public, Found Family Publishing Research Quarterly 36:403–417

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Topic

Patterson, Janet (1981) Consuming Passion Fireweed 11:19-33

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Pearce, Lynne (2004) " Popular Romance and Its Readers " A Companion to Romance: From Classical to Contemporary 521-538

Topic

Muram, David Rosenthal, Ted L. Tolley, Elizabeth A. Peeler, Molly M. Pitts, Bridget (1992) Teenage Pregnancy: Dating and Sexual Attitudes Journal of Sex Education and Therapy 18.4:264-276

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Snyman, Maritha Penzhorn, Cecilia (2011) Leser en Konteks: ’n resepsiestudie oor Afrikaanse romanselesers Tydskrif vir Geesteswetenskappe 51.2:238-250

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South Africa

Péquignot, Bruno (1991) La relation amoureuse: analyse sociologique du roman sentimental moderne Paris: L’Harmattan

Topic

Pérez Ríu, Carmen (2021) " Romance Reading as Fandom in the Context of Convergence Culture " Romantic Escapes: Post-Millennial Trends in Contemporary Popular Romance Fiction 147-174

Topic

Pierre, Zakiya (2021) Browsing in nuances: Using ethnographic research to design for the experience of browsing. Bachelor, Malmö University

Topic

Muram, David Rosenthal, Ted L. Tolley, Elizabeth A. Peeler, Molly M. Pitts, Bridget (1992) Teenage Pregnancy: Dating and Sexual Attitudes Journal of Sex Education and Therapy 18.4:264-276

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Potter, Jane (2015) " ‘Khaki and Kisses’: Reading the Romance Novel in the Great War " Reading and the First World War: Readers, Texts, Archives 29-44 DOI:10.1057/9781137302717_2

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Pritchard, Jamee Nicole (2021) That 90's Kind of Love: the Rise of African American Romance Novels in Traditional Romance Publishing Master of Arts, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee

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Provost, Sylvie (1982) Avez-vous déjà lu IXE-13, Albert Brien, Guy Verchères…? Études littéraires 15.2:133–164

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Pryde, Jessica P. (2022) Black Love Matters: Real Talk on Romance, Being Seen, and Happily Ever After New York: Berkley

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Puri, Jyoti (1997) Reading Romance Novels in Postcolonial India Gender & Society 11.4:434-452

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Quilliam, Susan (2011) “He seized her in his manly arms and bent his lips to hers…”. The surprising impact that romantic novels have on our work Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care 37.3:179-181

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Radcliffe, Polly (1991) Accounting for romance: Women's explanations for reading romance fiction Master of Arts, University of Toronto

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Topic

Radford, Jean (1986) " Introduction " The Progress of Romance: The Politics of Popular Fiction 1-20

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Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)

Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)

Radford, Jean (1992) " A Certain Latitude: Romance as Genre " Gender, Language, and Myth: Essays on Popular Narrative 3-19

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Radner, Hilary (1995) Shopping Around: Feminine Culture and the Pursuit of Pleasure New York and London: Routledge

Topic

Radway, Janice (1981) The Utopian Impulse in Popular Literature: Gothic Romances and "Feminist" Protest American Quarterly 33.2:140-162

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Radway, Janice A. (1983) Women Read the Romance: The Interaction of Text and Context Feminist Studies 9.1:53-78

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Radway, Janice A. (1984) Interpretive Communities And Variable Literacies: The Functions Of Romance Reading Daedalus 113.3:49-73

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Radway, Janice A. (1984) Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press

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Rampoldi Hnilo, Lynn A. (1996) The effects of romance in young adult fiction on pre-adolescent African-American females MA thesis, Michigan State University

Topic

Reed, Eleanor (2020) Romance in Woman’s Weekly and Woman’s Weekly as Romance, 1918–39 Journal of European Periodical Studies 5.2:80–94

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Reed, Eleanor (2023) Woman's Weekly and Lower-Middle-Class Domestic Culture in Britain, 1918-1958: Making Homemakers Liverpool: Liverpool University Press

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Reeves, Anne R. (2004) Adolescents Talk about Reading: Exploring Resistance to and Engagement with Text : International Reading Association

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Regis, Pamela (2011) What Do Critics Owe the Romance? Keynote Address at the Second Annual Conference of the International Association for the Study of Popular Romance Journal of Popular Romance Studies 2.1:

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Reid Boyd, Elizabeth (2014) Romancing feminism: From women’s studies to women’s fiction Australasian Journal of Popular Culture 3.3:263-272

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love

Elizabeth Reid Boyd (pen name Eliza Redgold)

Reid-Walsh, Jacqueline (1993) " Adolescent Girls' Romance Fiction: Contemporary Conduct Books? " Weaving Alliances: Selected Papers Presented For The Canadian Women's Studies Association at the 1991 and 1992 Learned Societies Conferences 303-318

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Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)

Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)

Reitemeier, Rebecca (2019) Romance Novels and Higher Education Inter-Text: An Undergraduate Journal for Social Sciences and Humanities 2.2:

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Reyes, Daisy Verduzco Speer, Annika C. Denes, Amanda (2021) White Women and Latina Readers’ Ambivalence Toward Fifty Shades of Grey Sexuality & Culture ONLINE FIRST:ONLINE FIRST

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Riche, Martha Farnsworth (1986) Why Romance Novels Are Like the Rustbelt American Demographics 8.8:46-48

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Ricker-Wilson, Carol (1999) Busting Textual Bodices: Gender, Reading, and the Popular Romance The English Journal 88.3:57-64

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Rihoit, Catherine (1984) Regards de femmes Paris: Presses de la Renaissance

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Roach, Catherine M. (2016) Happily Ever After: The Romance Story in Popular Culture Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press

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Robine, Nicole (1995) " Roman sentimental et jeunes travailleuses " Guimauve et fleurs d’oranger: Delly 21-54

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Rodriguez, Simone Meirelles (2005) Leitoras com coração: usos de leitura dos romances sentimentais de massa Letras 65:23-37

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Rose, Suzanna (1985) Is Romance Dysfunctional? International Journal of Women's Studies 8.3:250-265

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Muram, David Rosenthal, Ted L. Tolley, Elizabeth A. Peeler, Molly M. Pitts, Bridget (1992) Teenage Pregnancy: Dating and Sexual Attitudes Journal of Sex Education and Therapy 18.4:264-276

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Ross, Catherine Sheldrick (2009) Reader on Top: Public Libraries, Pleasure Reading, and Models of Reading Library Trends 57.4:632-656

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Rudisill, Kristen (2018) Full-Blooded Desi Romance: Contemporary English-Language Romance Novels in India Journal of Popular Culture 51.3:754-775

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family

Ruggiero, Josephine A. Weston, Louise C. (1977) Sex-Role Characterization of Women in "Modern Gothic Novels" The Pacific Sociological Review 20.2:279-300

Topic

Ruggiero, Josephine A. Weston, Louise C. (1983) Conflicting Images of Women in Romance Novels International Journal of Women's Studies 6.1:18-25

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Russ, Joanna (1985) " Pornography By Women For Women, With Love " Magic Mommas, Trembling Sisters, Puritans & Perverts: Femininst Essays 79–99 DOI:10.2307/j.ctt20p58d6.10

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science fiction/futuristic romance

Samuel, Barbara (1997) The Art of Romance Novels Para.doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres 3.1-2:78-80

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Ruth Wind/Barbara Samuel/Barbara O'Neal

Sánchez-Palencia Carazo, Carolina (1994) El discurso femenino de la novela rosa en lengua inglesa la mujer como protagonista, autora y lectora del género PhD, Universidad de Sevilla

Topic

Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)

Sanders, Lise Shapiro (2006) Consuming Fantasies: Labor, Leisure, and the London Shopgirl, 1880-1920 Columbus: Ohio State University Press

Topic

Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)

Saxena, Vandana (2021) Afterlives of Colonialism: Nostalgia, Reader’s Response and the Case of Noel Barber’s Tanamera The Journal of Commonwealth Literature ONLINE FIRST:ONLINE FIRST

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Schell, Heather (2013) " Bringing the Mid-West to the Middle-East: An Analysis of a Harlequin Romance in English and Turkish " The Silk Road of Adaptation: Transformations across Disciplines and Cultures 160-171

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Schell, Heather (2020) After “I Do”: Turkish Harlequin Readers Re-Imagine the Happy Ending Journal of Popular Romance Studies 9:

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Turkey

Schiffman, Leon G. Schnaars, Steven P. (1981) " The Consumption of Historical Romance Novels: Consumer Aesthetics in Popular Literature " SV - Symbolic Consumer Behavior 46-51

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Schiffman, Leon G. Schnaars, Steven P. (1981) " The Consumption of Historical Romance Novels: Consumer Aesthetics in Popular Literature " SV - Symbolic Consumer Behavior 46-51

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Schultz Nybacka, Pamela (2011) Bookonomy: The Consumption Practice and Value of Book Reading PhD, Stockholm University

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Sweden

Seidel, Kathleen Gilles (1992) " Judge Me by the Joy I Bring " Dangerous Men and Adventurous Women: Romance Writers on the Appeal of the Romance 159-179

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Moore, Kate Selinger, Eric Murphy (2012) The Heroine as Reader, the Reader as Heroine: Jennifer Crusie’s Welcome to Temptation Journal of Popular Romance Studies 2.2:

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Selinger, Eric Murphy (2018) Use Heart in Your (Re)Search: The Invitations of Popular Romance Researching the Romance, conference held at Bowling Green State University, on 13 April :

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Sherry Thomas

Sequeiros, Paula (2018) “Holding the Dream”: Women’s Favorite Reading Matter in a Portuguese Prison Qualitative Sociology Review 14.1:110-128

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Portugal

Serafine, Amelia (2016) " "He Filled My Heart with Doubt": The Southern Belle's Love and Duty in the Civil War " Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom? 41-55

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Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)

Augusta Jane Evans

death

war/armed forces

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Serisier, Tanya (2015) " On Not Reading Fifty Shades: Feminism and the Fantasy of Romantic Immunity " Women and Erotic Fiction: Critical Essays on Genres, Markets & Readers 117-132

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Coles, Claire D. Shamp, M. Johnna (1984) Some Sexual, Personality, and Demographic Characteristics of Women Readers of Erotic Romances Archives of Sexual Behavior 13.3:187-209

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Shapiro, Joan Kroeger, Lee (1991) Is Life a Romantic Novel? The Relationship Between Attitudes About Intimate Relationships and the Popular Media American Journal of Family Therapy 19.3:226-236

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fascism/right-wing authoritarianism

Shore, Z. Lesley (2000) Essay Review: Girls Learning, Women Teaching: Dancing to Different Drummers Educational Studies 31.2:132-145

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Andrade, Roberta Manuela Barros de Silva, Erotilde Honório (2010) A vida em cor de rosa: o romance sentimental e a ditadura militar no Brasil Famecos 17.2:41-48

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Andrade, Roberta Manuela Barros de Silva, Erotilde Honório (2013) A pedagogia social dos romances de amor dos “tempos da vovó” Tensões Mundias 9.21:251-274

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Andrade, Roberta Manuela Barros de Silva, Erotilde Honório (2013) O Consumo de Romances e o Universo Feminino: As Práticas de Leitura dos Livros do Coração Interin 15.1:50-63

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Andrade, Roberta Manuela Barros de Silva, Erotilde Honório (2014) Os Romances Sentimentais e suas Comunidades de Leitura O público e o privado 24:119-134

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Sinha, Mona (2022) " Reading Mills and Boon in India From the Post-Colonial to the Millennial Experience " Indian Popular Fiction: Redefining the Canon

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India

chick lit

Slušná, Zuzana (2015) Postfeminism, Post-romantic and New Patterns of Feminity [sic] in Popular Culture European Journal of Science and Theology 11.6:229-238

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Smáradóttir, Helena María (2009) Love as a Commodity: Brand-Name Romantic Fiction and its Readers. The Domain and Readership of Harlequin Enterprises, Both in Iceland and Abroad Masters, University of Iceland

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Iceland

Deller, Ruth A. Smith, Clarissa (2013) Reading the BDSM romance: Reader responses to Fifty Shades Sexualities 16.8:932–950

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Trower, Shelley Tooth Murphy, Amy Smith, Graham (2019) ‘Me mum likes a book, me dad’s a newspaper man’: Reading, gender and domestic life in ‘100 Families’ Participations 16.1:554-581

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Snitow, Ann Barr (1979) Mass Market Romance: Pornography for Women is Different Radical History Review 20:141-161

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Snyman, Maritha Penzhorn, Cecilia (2011) Leser en Konteks: ’n resepsiestudie oor Afrikaanse romanselesers Tydskrif vir Geesteswetenskappe 51.2:238-250

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South Africa

Sonnet, Esther (2002) " '"Just a book", she said ...': Refiguring Ethnography for the Female Readers of Sexual Fiction " The Audience Studies Reader 254-273

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Reyes, Daisy Verduzco Speer, Annika C. Denes, Amanda (2021) White Women and Latina Readers’ Ambivalence Toward Fifty Shades of Grey Sexuality & Culture ONLINE FIRST:ONLINE FIRST

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Hague, Euan Stenhouse, David (2007) " A Very Interesting Place: Representing Scotland in American Romance Novels " The Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Scottish Literature 354-361

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Sterk, Helen Mae (1986) Functioning fictions: the adjustment rhetoric of Silhouette romance novels PhD, University of Iowa

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Topic

Street, Amy (2021) " Georgette Heyer – guilty pleasures " Georgette Heyer, History, and Historical Fiction 240-249 DOI:10.2307/j.ctv15d818n.18

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Struve, Laura (2011) Sisters of Sorts: Reading Romantic Fiction and the Bonds Among Female Readers Journal of Popular Culture 44.6:1289-1306

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Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)

Sule, Sani (2019) Exploring the Benefit and Significance of Reading Hausa Popular Romance Genre: A Thematic Analysis International Journal of Management and Applied Science 5.9:165-168

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Nigeria

Sullivan, Ashleigh Taylor (2022) " From Darcy to Dickheads: Why Do Women Love the Bad Boy? " New Frontiers in Popular Romance: Essays on the Genre in the 21st Century 31-44

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Talbot, Mary M. (1995) Fictions at Work: Language and Social Practice in Fiction London and New York: Longman

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Tang, Ning (2022) Reading Online Romance Novels Is Related To Chinese Readers' View of Love Academic Journal of Humanities & Social Science 5.2:32-45

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China

love

Taylor, Helen (1989) " Romantic Readers " From My Guy to Sci-Fi: Genre and Women's Writing in the Postmodern World 58-77

Topic

Barbara Taylor Bradford

Margaret Mitchell

Taylor, Helen (2019) Why Women Read Fiction: The Stories of Our Lives Oxford: Oxford University Press

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Taylor, Jessica (2020) Garçon Manqué: A Queer Rereading (of) The Sheik Journal of Popular Romance Studies 9:

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E. M. Hull

Radclyffe Hall

Gilbert, Pam Taylor, Sandra (1991) Fashioning the Feminine: Girls, Popular Culture, and Schooling North Sydney, Australia: Allen & Unwin

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Gilbert, Pam Taylor, Sandra (1993) " Reading the Romance " Nation, Culture, Text: Australian Cultural and Media Studies 246-256 DOI:10.4324/9780203131992

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Teague, Anna Sophia Wester (2015) “If my hubby ever did half the stuff my book boyfriends did… I’d put him six ft in the ground” : narratives of interpersonal and gendered violence as discussed in romance novel review websites Honors thesis, Whitman College

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Fletcher, Lisa McAlister, Jodi Temple, Kurt Williams, Kathleen (2019) #loveyourshelfie: Mills & Boon books and how to find them Mémoires du livre / Studies in Book Culture 11.1:

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Teo, Hsu-Ming (2012) " "Bertrice teaches you about history, and you don't even mind!": History and Revisionist Historiography in Bertrice Small's The Kadin " New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction: Critical Essays 21-32

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Thierauf, Doreen (2016) Forever After: Desire in the 21st-Century Romance Blockbuster Journal of Popular Culture 49.3:604-26

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Thomas, Audrey (1986) A Fine Romance, My Dear, This Is Canadian Literature 108:5-12

Topic

Charlotte Lamb

Thomas, Glen James, Bridie (2006) " The Romance Industry: A Study of Reading and Writing Romance " The Reinvention of Everyday Life: Culture in the twenty-first century 164-174

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Thomas, Glen (2007) " Romance: The Perfect Creative Industry? A Case Study of Harlequin-Mills and Boon Australia " Empowerment versus Oppression: Twenty-First Century Views of Popular Romance Novels 20-29

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Thomas, Glen (2012) " Happy Readers or Sad Ones? Romance Fiction and the Problems of the Media Effects Model " New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction: Critical Essays 206-217

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Anna Campbell

Thompson, Marcella Koski, Patricia Holyfield, Lori (1997) Romance and agency: An argument revisited Sociological Spectrum 17.4:437-451

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Thurston, Carol (1987) The Romance Revolution: Erotic Novels for Women and the Quest for a New Sexual Identity Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press

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erotic romance

Tindall, Natalie T. J. (2022) Black Romance Authors and Community Cultural Wealth: A Case Study of Brenda Jackson’s Career Journal of Popular Romance Studies 11:

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Tobin-McClain, Lee (2000) Paranormal Romance: Secrets of the Female Fantastic Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts 11.3 (43):294-306

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Muram, David Rosenthal, Ted L. Tolley, Elizabeth A. Peeler, Molly M. Pitts, Bridget (1992) Teenage Pregnancy: Dating and Sexual Attitudes Journal of Sex Education and Therapy 18.4:264-276

Topic

Trower, Shelley Tooth Murphy, Amy Smith, Graham (2019) ‘Me mum likes a book, me dad’s a newspaper man’: Reading, gender and domestic life in ‘100 Families’ Participations 16.1:554-581

Topic

Toscano, Angela (2019) " The Idolatry of the Real: Form, Formula, and Happy Endings in Romance Literature " Iconoclasm: The Breaking and Making of Images 173-192 DOI:10.2307/j.ctvnb7s6p.13

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Treacher, Amal (1988) " What is Life Without My Love?: Desire and Romantic Fiction " Sweet Dreams: Sexuality, Gender and Popular Fiction 73-90

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Doreen Hornsblow as Sally Wentworth

McAlister, Jodi Parnell, Claire Trinidad, Andrea Anne (2020) #RomanceClass: Genre World, Intimate Public, Found Family Publishing Research Quarterly 36:403–417

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Topic

Trower, Shelley Tooth Murphy, Amy Smith, Graham (2019) ‘Me mum likes a book, me dad’s a newspaper man’: Reading, gender and domestic life in ‘100 Families’ Participations 16.1:554-581

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Turnbull, Sue (2002) 'Nice Dress, Take It Off': Crime, Romance and the Pleasure of the Text International Journal of Cultural Studies 5.1:67-82

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Janet Evanovich

Opas, Lisa Lena Tweedie, Fiona (1999) The Magic Carpet Ride: Reader Involvement in Romantic Fiction Literary and Linguistic Computing 14.1:89-101

Topic

Danielle Steel

Ty, Eleanor (1994) " Desire and Temptation: Dialogism and the Carnivalesque in Category Romances " A Dialogue of Voices: Feminist Literary Theory and Bakhtin 97-113

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metafiction

Uddin-Khan, Evelyn Angelina (1995) Gender, Ethnicity and the Romance Novel Ed.D., Teachers College, Columbia University

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Valeo, Christina A. (2012) Crusie and the Con Journal of Popular Romance Studies 2.2:

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Valovirta, Elina (2021) " Repeated Pleasure: Reading the Threesome Ménage Romance as Digital Literature " Powerful Prose: How Textual Features Impact Readers 45-61

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Adkins, Denice Esser, Linda Velasquez, Diane (2006) Relations Between Librarians and Romance Readers: A Missouri Survey Public Libraries 45.4:54-64

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Topic

Veros, Vassiliki (2012) The Romance Reader and the Public Library Australian Library Journal 61.4:298-306

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Veros, Vassiliki (2017) Keepers: Marking the Value of the Books on my Shelves Proceedings from the Document Academy 4.1:

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Veros, Vassiliki (2019) Metatextual Conversations: The Exclusion/Inclusion of Genre Fiction in Public Libraries and Social Media Book Groups Journal of the Australian Library and Information Association 68.3:254-267

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Topic

Vivanco, Laura (2020) " Changing Attitudes to Others: Meljean Brook’s Riveted (2012) and its Context " Love, Language, Place, and Identity in Popular Culture: Romancing the Other 113-126

Topic

Zoë Archer

war/armed forces

Vivanco, Laura (2020) Faith, Love, Hope and Popular Romance Fiction Online:

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Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)

Justine Davis/Justine Dare

Suleikha Snyder

community

happy ending

Wu, Huei-Hsia Walsh, Anthony (2005) Romance Novels and Female Sexuality: Vicarious Participation? Free Inquiry in Creative Sociology 33.2:105-109

Topic

Wardrop, Stephanie (1995) The Heroine is Being Beaten: Freud, Sadomasochism, and Reading the Romance Style: A Quarterly Journal of Aesthetics, Poetics, Stylistics, and Literary Criticism 29.3:459-473

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Kathleen Woodiwiss

Washington, AlTonya (2015) " An Indie Author in a Library World " Self-Publishing and Collection Development: Opportunities and Challenges for Libraries 139-147

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Weaver-Zercher, Valerie (2013) Thrill of the Chaste: the Allure of Amish Romance Novels Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press

Wendell, Sarah (2012) " "You call me a bitch like that's a bad thing": Romance Criticism and Redefining the Word "Bitch" " New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction: Critical Essays 178-194

Topic

Topic

Ruggiero, Josephine A. Weston, Louise C. (1977) Sex-Role Characterization of Women in "Modern Gothic Novels" The Pacific Sociological Review 20.2:279-300

Topic

Ruggiero, Josephine A. Weston, Louise C. (1983) Conflicting Images of Women in Romance Novels International Journal of Women's Studies 6.1:18-25

Topic

Whalen, Kacey (2017) A Consumption of Gay Men: Navigating the Shifting Boundaries of M/M Romantic Readership MA thesis, DePaul University

Topic

White, Ann Yvonne (2008) Genesis Press: Cultural Representation and the Production of African American Romance Novels PhD, University of Iowa

Topic

Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)

Dyanne Davis

Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)

Whitehead, Frances (1992) Love Makes the World Go Round (?): The Romantic Novel as a Publishing Phenomenon Logos 3.2:62-68

Topic

Whyte, Tamara (2012) " "A consummation devoutly to be wished": Shakespeare in Popular Historical Romance Fiction " New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction: Critical Essays 218-228

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Shakespeare

Jacquie D'Allessandro

Sabrina Jefferies

Kalen Hughes/Isobel Carr

Wilkins, Kim Driscoll, Beth Fletcher, Lisa (2022) Genre Worlds: Popular Fiction and 21st-Century Book Culture Amherst and Boston: University of Massachusetts Press

Topic

Williams, Clover Freedman, Jean R. (1995) " Shakespeare's Step-Sisters: Romance Novels and the Community of Women " Folklore, Literature, and Cultural Theory: Collected Essays 135-168

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Williams, Clover (1998) Keepers of the Flame: The Romance Novel and Its Fans Lore and Language 16.1-2:115-138

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Fletcher, Lisa McAlister, Jodi Temple, Kurt Williams, Kathleen (2019) #loveyourshelfie: Mills & Boon books and how to find them Mémoires du livre / Studies in Book Culture 11.1:

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Williams, Mary (2021) Consent Is Sexy: A Look Into the Influence the ‘Me Too.’ Movement Had On the Romance Genre Through Smart Bitches Trashy Books Master of Arts in Book Publishing, Portland State University

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Topic

Wright, Laura Bell (2003) The Appeal of Vampire Romance: Why Do Readers Like These Stories? Masters, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Topic

Wu, Huei-Hsia Walsh, Anthony (2005) Romance Novels and Female Sexuality: Vicarious Participation? Free Inquiry in Creative Sociology 33.2:105-109

Topic

Wu, Huei-Hsia (2006) Gender, Romance Novels and Plastic Sexuality in the United States: A Focus on Female College Students Journal of International Women’s Studies 8.1:125-134

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Wu, Huei-Hsia (2007) Reading Romance Novels and Female Sexuality among American Heterosexual and Lesbian College Students The International Journal of Diversity in Organisations, Communities and Nations 6.6:31-38

Topic

Young, Beth Rapp (1995) But are they any good? Women readers, formula fiction, and the sacralization of the literary canon PhD, University of Southern California

Topic

Young, Beth Rapp (1997) Accidental Authors, Random Readers, and the Art of Popular Romance Para.doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres 3.1-2:29-45

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